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ZHUO Xinping, Ph. D. (1987) in Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, is a researcher and the president of the Institute of World Religions at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is also the president of the Chinese Association of Religious Studies and has been a member of the German Association for the History of Religion since 1988. Dr. Zhuo has published extensively on religion in general and Christianity in particular. His academic publications include Comparative Studies on Contemporary Chinese and Western Theory of Religion (in German) (Peter Lang, 1988) and a dozen of books on religion in Chinese.Chi Zhen, Ph.D. (2007), National University of Singapore, is Associate Research Fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He has published monographs and articles on Chinese intellectual history. He teaches modern Chinese history at China Executive Leadership Academy Jinggangshan.Caroline Mason is a translator based in the north of England. She studied Chinese in London, at Harvard, and in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Beijing. For many years a lecturer in Chinese at Durham University, she now teaches part-time on the MA in Translation and Interpreting at Newcastle University. Her published translations include numerous short stories and articles, and A Critical History of New Music in China, by Liu Ching-chih (CUHK Press, 2010).

• Part I: STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGYChapter One The Status of Christian Theology in China TodayZhuo XinpingChapter Two The Reconstruction of Chinese Christian TheologyDuan QiChapter Three “Sino-Christian Theology” in the Context of ModernityLiu XiaofengPart II: Christianity and Chinese CultureChapter Four Human Dignity in Christianity and Confucianism: A Comparative StudyHe Guanghu Chapter Five Missionaries in Modern China and their Perceptions of ConfucianismHu WeiqingChapter Six Why Modern Chinese Philosophers Have Rejected Christianity: The Case of Feng YoulanWang XiaochaoPart III: Christian Ethics and Social DevelopmentChapter Seven Christianity and Contemporary Chinese Society: An Empirical PerspectiveGao ShiningChapter Eight The Economic Model of a Catholic Community: Mopanshan Catholic Church in Northwest Hubei Kang ZhijiePart IV: Christianity and Chinese LiteratureChapter Nine Literary Studies of the Bible: Theory and PracticeLiang GongPart V: Christian Education and Cultural ExchangeChapter Ten The Vicissitudes of Missionary Universities in China: Evidence from the Miner Searle Bates PapersZhang KaiyuanChapter Eleven Some Tentative Comments on the Influence of Ferdinand Verbiest on the Emperor Kangxi’s Policy towards CatholicismLin JinshuiChapter Twelve The Jesuits in China and the Rise of Early European Sinology: A Brief Discussion of the Connection between Michał Piotr Boym and Athanasius Kircher’s China IllustrataZhang Xiping

“This collection goes beyond many other Chinese scholarly volumes on Christianity in that around half of the chapters deal with more or less con¬temporary perspectives. […] This volume demonstrates for an English-speaking audience the depth and breadth of Chinese scholarship on Christianity.”Fredrik Fällman, University of Gothenburg, Review of Religion and Chinese Society, 3 (2016)“This is a highly valuable volume of selected articles on Christianity written by Chinese authors translated into English. […] the volume is of interest not only for Western experts in the field of Chinese religions, but it also provides helpful first-hand material in translation for students and scholars in World Christianities who have no command of Chinese, offering a glimpse of the types of scholarship and reflection produced in Mainland Chinese academia.”Christian Meyer, Freie Universität Berlin, Journal of Chinese Religions, Vol. 44 No.2, November 2016